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timo
02-05-2005, 12:46
Hi,

I've now read quite a few forum posts and the documentation, and somebody mentioned that you can choose wether the agent should listen or push its data. However, I was unable to find the option where I can enable this.

I need to monitor a server which is behind a firewall, so it's not actually monitoring, but reporting.

Wolfgang
02-05-2005, 20:09
I think this option is not yet implemented and was discussed as a feature request for further versions.

timo
02-05-2005, 20:31
Nice to know, so I think I have to stick with an SSH tunnel.

Alexei
02-05-2005, 20:35
I think this option is not yet implemented and was discussed as a feature request for further versions.This functionality will be availably pretty soon, in 1.1alpha8!

Wolfgang
02-05-2005, 21:01
This functionality will be availably pretty soon, in 1.1alpha8!

Good to hear :)

Do you also consider any kind of enryption for the traffic between zabbix client and server for any future V1.1Alpha x release? ;)

Alexei
02-05-2005, 21:33
Do you also consider any kind of enryption for the traffic between zabbix client and server for any future V1.1Alpha x release? ;)Yes, I do. Please, do not expect public key cryptography though. I will implement something simple (DES, 3DES, BLOWFISH, whatever).

Wolfgang
02-05-2005, 21:59
Yes, I do. Please, do not expect public key cryptography though. I will implement something simple (DES, 3DES, BLOWFISH, whatever).

Great :)
As for the encryption type, symmetric encryption is fine. If i remeber correctly, bflowfish has the advantage of manageing unaligend data blocks within the algorithm, but i can be wrong.